WASHINGTON D.C (LifeSiteNews) — President Joe Biden assured reporters that, after nearly two years of job-killing and liberty-squelching lockdowns, restrictions, and mandates, Americans can look forward to a return to normal — but only if nearly 100% of them submit to the COVID jab. 

Asked yesterday by journalists when the country might get back to business as usual,  Biden suggested that America would be “awful close” to fully reopening if nearly every single American got the jab. 

“Well I think… Look. I think we get the vast majority, like what’s going on in some of these industries and some schools – 97, 98%, I think we’re going to be awful close,” the president said. 

Biden made the comments while being filmed getting a COVID-19 booster shot at the White House on Monday afternoon. The president did not say whether Americans should expect to be required to top up with booster shots to become or remain “fully vaccinated” in future.  

Author and columnist Tim Young derided the president for the sky-high and seemingly arbitrary statistic, arguing that Americans shouldn’t wait to be given permission before they begin living normally again. 

“There’s no scientific or statistical basis for this… and [Biden] himself has said otherwise on multiple occasions,” Young said.

“We can be normal now… and most people are living normally already.” 

During his comments to reporters, Biden qualified his responses by acknowledging that he’s “not the scientist.”  

Still, the president took the opportunity to place blame for the delayed lifting of mandates and restrictions at the feet of unvaccinated Americans, saying, “I think one thing’s for certain: a quarter of the country can’t go unvaccinated and us not have a problem.” 

It is unclear how Biden arrived at his statistical estimate or what scientific research pointed him to the conclusion that 25% vaccine refusal is an untenable situation which prevents full reopening.